March 22, 2007

"We stayed at a friend of Kevin's house that evening"

Yeah, that's the kind of answer you'd expect from your kid when he's messed up and is trying to cover his tracks.

But it was actually the answer that the freakin' MAYOR OF PITTSBURGH, Luke Ravenstahl, gave to a major daily newspaper (the Post-Gazette).

Ravenstahl has previously stated that he doesn't know where he ate that night and that he didn't remember in what part of town he spent the night.

Early Alzheimer's? I think not.

The night in question is of course Luke's now infamous trip to NYC.

Lil Lukey also says that he's going to just refuse to give any more details about his little field trip.

And for those who will inevitably ask why any of this matters, it does:

Where the mayor slept, though, is relevant if the lodgings were owned or rented by a party with some interest in city business, and if the stay had monetary value. The city's code of conduct bars officials from taking gifts above nominal value from an "interested party," with some exceptions.

No one can paint an accurate picture of the "anon readers" because they are too wussy to even comment with a nickname.

Perhaps I'll just decide from now on to address yinz as "Luke" or "Dick" or "Yarone" because you might be afterall and also then Luke and his posse will get credit for some of the dumb things many of the anons say.